On Wed, 13 Sep 2006, Sick Twist wrote:
> I am looking for some help with a SFD project. I have an RMS speech in Ogg
> Theora format, ~25 minutes in length, that needs to automatically start
> fullscreen on every hour and half hour. I would probably try to do it by
> launching an mplayer or gxine wrapper script from crontab but I am buried
> in other SFD projects right now. If someone else could spare me the grunt
> work I would be _very_ thankful. Extra points if you can make it display a
> post-movie message on the screen indicating the time remaining until the
> next screening ;)
The playing part is easy. In crontab:
#mn hr dm mo dw
0,30 * 16 9 * mplayer -fs $MOVIE
The countdown, not so much. This counts down to a specified time, and looks
good doing it (well except for the font):
xdaliclock -countdown 'Sep 16 11:30:00 2006' -fullscreen -font '-*-new
century schoolbook-medium-r-*-*-300-*-*-*-*-*-*-*'
but the time would have to be changed at every invocation. Running it like
so:
mplayer $MOPTIONS ; xdaliclock $XOPTIONS
would start with no chance of being wrong, even if somebody pauses or FFs
the movie.
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